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 Samsung Galaxy Note II LYN's Official Thread V27, 4.3 is here, but no Note 3 features

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post Nov 7 2013, 08:16 AM

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QUOTE(WanMya @ Nov 7 2013, 05:47 AM)
Why note 2 hot when plying games. On official stock
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It depends. What game and how hot? For intensive games like Modern Combat 4 or something like that, it's normal if the phone gets warm. If it gets burning hot for no reason while doing nothing, than you have a problem.
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post Nov 7 2013, 03:15 PM

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QUOTE(off_shore @ Nov 7 2013, 03:08 PM)
I was on DN3 and the battery drains really fast even though im using some battery saver app where it will disable my data usage whenever the screen is off.. still it drains pretty fast... like 30% for 4 hours with screen time less than 1 hour.....

do anything of u face battery drainage issue with custom roms?
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My battery lasts for a full day on average, with 3-4 hours SOT (on Wanam MI6). 30% in 4 hours with 1 hour screen on might be a bit too much, especially if you're not running heavy games or something.

I'm not even running any battery saver app or tweaks at all.

That said, I'm running my MI6 debloated, with most of the Sammy crap totally uninstalled. If you're running the same stuff you had from before you upgraded to DN3 (which is running an MI6 base as well), it might just be the extra stuff Sammy put into 4.3; or like gin&tonic said, rogue apps.

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QUOTE(zerohunter @ Nov 7 2013, 05:00 PM)
Love the DN3 but the Google account keep logged out is quite annoying
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There seems to be a fix up for that on XDA.

http://bit.ly/17OAF1c

I haven't had much of the problem itself, but I just installed this for good measure. Just make sure you "uninstall updates" for the Play Store from the application manager first.

Also, it might be a bloody placebo effect, but somehow everything's smoother now with the store fix above. It's really unlikely it had to do with anything but that's like the only thing I changed. Even the browser stutters less now.

Really weird.

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QUOTE(muman7 @ Nov 8 2013, 12:56 AM)
My phone keeps freezing lately even after wipe and install some different roms (all on custom 4.3) and some research get me to the eMMC Brickbug Check  apps from playstore and it confirmed that I have the insane chip! Still not sure the freezing problems and some random reboots has anything to do with the chip so hope any bros here can give some advice.
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Random freezes and reboots are A SIGN that SDS is coming, but it really isn't SDS per se. SDS is actually when your N2 fails to boot completely (heavy eMMC corruption). Even in my case when I changed my S3 board back then, it wasn't really full SDS, but it was corrupted enough to completely freeze AND boot loop about 3-4 seconds EVERY TIME after starting android, which was really bad.

Weather or not you need to change boards depends entirely on how much your eMMC is corrupted, you can check this through the memory tester built into Brickbug Check.

Start from a fully wiped 4.3, and use the memory tester. If it passes, you're fine. If it fails, get a cheque ready for RM600 to get a new board, as there's no real other way out from this mess. Make sure you repair with Samsung, even if you can get cheaper outside (unless you have a trustable repair shop) because I've seen people get screwed with refurbished parts (with insane chip).

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Just finished playing around with my build.prop. Bootlooped three times before I managed to get it working due to crap settings.

Everything feels snappier now, but really, are there any UI tweaks that are actually quantifiable? Especially when it comes to the magic cauldron that is build.prop.
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QUOTE(joytest @ Nov 11 2013, 11:15 AM)
You could check out the deprecated Moon Rom on xda it had some funky multi windows feature.
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Will do. Looks like tabletUI floating windows to me, will check.

Just managed to mod my lockscreen back to standard JB widget LS with a boatload of other tweaks so that I can use Dashclock without the stock Sammy noti widget getting in the way, great fun.

Now finding other stuff to tweak. For an odexed rom, WL4.0 is proving to be a very stable basis for mods, largely thanks to Xposed. But no more jury-rigging image filea withnin APKs by hand like in the good ol' days, which is kinda sad.

Haven't lost my Google accounts even once since flashing that fix up on XDA, if anybody's wondering. Can say for sure it fixed the infamous MI6 "problem" for me.

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QUOTE(joytest @ Nov 11 2013, 02:31 PM)
Internal storage should be ext4, which shouldn't have a 4Gb size limit. Could be an intentional restriction though.

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The eMMC itself is primarily EXT4, BUT the part we know as the "SD Card" or "internal storage" is actually formatted in FAT32 IINM. So yeah, 4GB max.

I think. Otherwise it can just be a software limit.

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QUOTE(Anonymous34 @ Nov 12 2013, 12:50 PM)
Maybe he buy note 2 when note 3 come out dy! Haha
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I did this, actually. My N2 is barely a month old.

If I have to give up custom recovery (and hence all the "real" fun stuff like kernels, AromaFM and convenient TWRP backups) for the extra features of the N3 (so that it stays "virgin"), I'd rather stick with the old phone.

Not that the N3 is a bad phone. It's a great phone, just that it's not as moddable if you wanna stay virgin yet.

I expected Knox to be well cracked by now honestly, at the rate Sammy is patching the holes, it'll be a while before full Knox-freedom can be achieved. Then again, after unker Benny's successful SME claim of a knoxtripped N3 (and my own claim of a clearly rooted SDS S3) I wonder if everyone should even care.

I plan to go N3 when the N4 comes along and the elder device is totally "barai" for modding - that is IF the N4 doesn't really come with any interesting enough upgrades to warrant immediate purchase.

@Sacremento: I'm just waiting for 4.3 Sammy kernel sources so that we can get custom Sammy kernels FINALLY. Running a stock kernel feels so... wrong.

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QUOTE(mydragoon @ Nov 12 2013, 04:37 PM)
but seriously... if some of the s-pen features are gone, i'd think one is actually missing some 'useful' functions, no? it'll end up being just another smartphone but with built-in pen. no hover to preview, etc...

but ya, some stuffs, i wish we can remove. i'm using AP set. it comes with Garmin... for Afrika. But I just disable it -- at least it doesn't load but its still taking up storage... :S
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Root and TiBu the bugger to hell.
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QUOTE(sacremento @ Nov 12 2013, 04:55 PM)
Hey, you are right man..it feels so wrong...
Can't do any tweaks..sad.gif

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I don't mean all...just the crappy ones like s-apps. Well, there's always Tibu to freeze them.
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Freeze them? Heck, I totally nuked most of my S-Apps, especially the ones that spawn unnecessary background processes and the ones that do things other apps simply do better (Samsung Apps... die). I do have backups though JIC, but I haven't really had to restore anything and I'm still rock stable.

Why not freeze? Just a habit I developed during my S3 days, back when nuking a ROM to its bare bones was actually essential to keep it running well under heavy multitasking - the 1GB of RAM was a terrible bottleneck, a fully tabbed browser alone was enough to bring the S3 to it's knees if I run un-nuked. Sure freezing might also work but why waste storage on things you don't need?

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QUOTE(Anonymous34 @ Nov 12 2013, 07:06 PM)
12 tabs will bottle neck 1GB of ram? But you should've got Note 2 and Note 3 together. Note 2 as primary device and keep note 3 in box so it's virgin lo.
Just realized joytest has both note 2 n 3. Very jealous of him. My dad said I'm too young for high end smartphones. cry.gif
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16 tabs max remember. And half of that image heavy, running some sort of flash or JS. Locks up or at least lags my S3 even with my nuclear strategy. The N2 just looks at me and asks "is that it? ".

If I had an N3, I know it'll just laugh at the tabs. That said, the stock browser on the N3 doesn't even have quick controls unmodded so 16 tabs will be a PITA to switch through.

Getting both and saving one? I poor fag lol, even the N2 was half-financed by the trade in of my S3.

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Finally deepsixed SNS for something better: UberSync. True high res contact sync with FB yum. Seems to works better than Haxsync (and the one in the FB app OR Friendcaster for that matter) and it's free too.

A shame I already sunk money In Haxsync during my S2 days. Should've waited for this.

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Uh oh... I think I broke Samsung Account sync while I was clearing up the other syncadapters I wasn't using. Not that I'm using it for anything Besides S-Note syncing anyway. Now it constantly gives me sync errors.

Too lazy to rollback, bought DropSync and set it up to sync my S-Notes to Dropbox instead, and wiped the whole syncadapter shebang off my device. Having replaced SNS with Ubersync + deleted S-Planner wholesale and replaced it with Jorte earlier today, I shudder to think how little Samsung-ness is left in my supposedly stock (odexed even) ROM.

@joytest: Thanks, file fixed. I don't even have anything to screen cast to so no idea if it works though.

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QUOTE(joytest @ Nov 13 2013, 09:18 PM)
I suggest you wean yourself off S-note even though it's useful. Use Handy Note with built in dropbox sync and device independence. It recognizes the S-Pen and has palm rejection as well.
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But that will mean the death of the cute little pop-up anywhere Chibi-Note, which I probably use more than the main app. Noooooooo!

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Plus, in terms of smoothness while writing and doodling, S-Note still takes the cake, unfortunately. So it stays, albeit in this extremely frankensteined state.

Plus DropSync is proving useful to autosync other folders up to Dropbox as well.

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QUOTE(joytest @ Nov 13 2013, 10:15 PM)
Well, Note 2 is the last great non-Nexus modding device. Devs itching for newer modding kicks will look to Nexus I suppose.

But then again, looking at the evolution of Touchwiz, many feel TW offers more in terms of usability out of the box than stock Android.
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Usability yes, through it's really only feature bloat. Half of the things in TW (especially the "gesture actions") are only really used occasionally. Though with the extreme power available on modern phones like the N3, putting empty stock android in will mean that the monster specs will be put to waste really, so might as well.

As such, feature bloat or not, out of the box Sammy phones are clearly horses with the most tricks, as you have said. Which is all that matters to most consumers anyway.

Sigh. In the end, considering NOBODY seems keen enough to come up with a stock android phone with an active stylus so I'll take what I have... and strip it bare. And it's not that the TW Framework is all bad, some of add ons are not bad (screen mirroring, S Beam). The colour scheme is horrendous though, especially when you consider that AMOLED actually runs better (lower power consumption) on a Holo Dark UI (actually a Red Holo Dark UI if you wanna get technical about it).

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QUOTE(joytest @ Nov 13 2013, 10:42 PM)
Oh well....to keep things simple, my wallpaper is a plain black background tongue.gif
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Why stop at that? brows.gif

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Still a bit miffed nobody seem to have inverted Gmail 4.6 yet though.

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QUOTE(ttkyy @ Nov 14 2013, 08:38 AM)
Yap,facing hang n auto restart once or twice a day.
Switch to joeldroid 3 days ago,also face hang twice n auto restart twice dy.
What custom rom without issues n bugs?
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Using WanamLite 4.0 (MI6) for more than a month edi. Zero hangs and restarts. Minimal FC as well - only really happens when I mod stuff (to be expected). It's speedy and smooth too. Well, there's some microstutters in the stock browser but that's about it.

Maybe it's your personal mods/tweaks/programs causing the hangs/reboots?

@tiensong: I might be two things, a hardware issue or software issue. Hardware: something (maybe your sp or dirt) is blocking your sensor. But you mentioned it's working fine In "selftest" so that probably isn't it.

Software: something is lagging the wake from sleep process (as it still wakes up normally when you press the power button, I don't think so) or you have installed something that causes the phone to LOCK rather than just turn the screen off (which is what's supposed to happen) when you take calls.

That said, if use your phone away from the ear (speaking through loudspeaker, for example), usually it will lock after 30 secs or so and you have to unlock it with the power or home button. If you keep it to your ear (normal use), it normally doesn't lock and only turns off screen for a while.

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QUOTE(Anonymous34 @ Nov 14 2013, 10:45 AM)
FYI, I don't use proper grammar in LYN. In fact, I already know that I have mistakes in the reply I posted. But who cares? Lol but anyways if I'm required to use proper English and grammar in this thread please inform otherwise I will continue replying using my broken English! smile.gif
How to backup EFS without using computer?
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TWRP or CWM should offer an option to backup EFS under "custom backups".

And OmniROM... mmmmmmmmmmm... Multi window on ASOP.... mmmmmmmmmmm... Does it work with MHL AND the S-Pen too? Cause if it does, I can start ditching TW for stock KK.

BTW, some wise words from XDA dev pulser_g2 about the inherent risks of completely trusting "the cloud", and being lazy with your passwords:

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I knew it was bad, but I never imagined it could be that easy. And we haven't even gone into insecure WIFI data interception yet (better known to most as "Facebook hacking", which is why I prefer to use 3G data even in places with hotspots unless I have no choice).

Fact remains that we remain "locked" to Google (and Samsung) simply because it makes things so much simpler for us. Even then, do remember that we can at least make it harder (well, if they try hard enough they WILL get the data nonetheless) for would be attackers to access our stuff.

While I doubt local criminals have reached this level of sophistication, if someone can think out this scenario, somebody else might just attempt it.

Uh... I'm gonna go reinforce my passwords and password retrieval questions now.

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QUOTE(chrisqck @ Nov 14 2013, 12:08 PM)
Exactly!  laugh.gif  Thing is IF someone is really determined to get you, he/she has very high chance of doing it. IF a hacker is bent on targeting you, he/she most likely will succeed. It's the same with locking your house door/gate and locking your car. If a thief is determined to break into your house, all these systems has some weaknesses that could be exploited.  Even when the system is fool proof, there's always the social engineering techniques.

The purpose of the "locks" is mostly to deter crime of opportunity, i.e. someone walking pass your house and noticed the gate and front door is open and there seems to be no one around the perimeter of the house.
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Hence the disclaimer "if they try hard enough...".

Granted, the scenario presented is worst case, but the fact remains that is how much information access is afforded to those with access to our google passwords, or have means to access it through the password retrieval systems. I mean, I'm not talking bruteforcing or other technical attacks here, just simple answer guessing defeating lazy passwords.

It's just a fair warning to those who insist on using their birthday/IC/real name/[insert inane easy to guess stuff here] as their passwords. Paranoia or not, lazy passwording is simply asking for trouble and yet people are still doing it.

Well, these are the same people politely giving away their credit card 3-digits when asked by a "bank rep" on the phone so it can't be helped, eh?

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QUOTE(sacremento @ Nov 14 2013, 04:28 PM)
That's very convenient. You should at least know the basics of rooting just in case.
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I'm thinking it's a dangerous move. It's like giving your teenage children keys to your car.

Unless CM is totally bugless and totally ready for consumer primetime, something so convenient should come plastered with warnings - not that people will heed it anyhow, but at least they should know what they're getting themselves into.

@nabru05: Not sure how you can revert though, but as CM 10 is JB (IINM), you can still revert back to normal 4.1.2 stock rom I think. How exactly I have no idea though, maybe flash a stock firmware from SamMobile with Odin?

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